Biography: Born in Boston, Jackie Nickerson has worked in both fashion and fine art photography in London and New York, In 2002, Jonathan Cape published ‘FARM’, a book of portraits of farm workers taken all over southern Africa. SteidlMack published her long term project on religious communities in Ireland, ‘Faith’ in No 2007, and it received its Irish premiere at the Paul Kane Gallery. The Gallery of Photography has toured the FAITH exhibition to the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Pairs, where it is currently on show as part of Mois de la Photo.
Jackie has been shortlisted for the John Kobal prize and nominated for the prestigious Becks Futures Award. This year, she was nominated by the Gallery of Photography for the €20,000 AIB Art Prize, which she won. The award-winning work, DOMICILE, will be premiered in the Gallery of Photography in December 2009. DOMICILE will also be published in book form by SteidlMACK.
Her work is represented in many important collections such as the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Santa Monica Museum. She is represented by the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York.
The piece in the current exhibition is Sister Irene, from the series FAITH.
The piece in the Grand Draw is Untitled, (Aran Islands).
